Today in our "Legends" segment, we pay homage to one of the true queens of Country Music-Dolly Parton.

Dolly was born "dirt poor" in 1946, in Sevierville, Tennessee.  She was the fourth of twelve children.  Her family made their home in a "dilapidated one-room cabin" in Locust Ridge, in the Greenbrier Valley of the Great Smokey Mountains.

Dolly began writing and singing at an early age.  She appeared on the Grand Ole Opry stage at 13, and was signed to her first record label in 1965.  Many of her songs would reflect on the poverty that she and her siblings would share growing up in rural Tennessee.

Coat of Many Colors, which Dolly wrote in 1969, would become, and remain to this day, her favorite.

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